About the Job
At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Intern...
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Key Responsibilities
We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead the Radar & Insights engineering team. You will lead a team of approximately eight engineers responsible for some of Cloudflare’s most visible Internet measurement products and the systems behind them. You will be responsible for the people, execution and engineering quality of the team while partnering closely with Product Management and engineering teams across Cloudflare.
This is a management role for someone who is deeply technically credible. You will not be expected to write most of the code, but you should be able to understand the systems your team operates, challenge architectural decisions, ask the right questions when something is going wrong, and step into a technical problem when the situation calls for it.
At the same time, we are looking for a manager, not a tech lead with direct reports. Your success will be measured by the quality and output of the team you build, the engineers you develop, and the systems and products they deliver.
This role may require flexibility to be on-call outside of standard working hours to address technical issues as needed.
Manage, coach and grow a team of engineers working across Cloudflare Radar, Speed Test andInternet measurement, analytics and large-scale data systems.
Own the team’s execution: establish clear priorities, create predictable delivery, and give engineers the context and autonomy to own meaningful areas of the product.
Improve the quality, reliability and usability of the data and insights surfaced through Radar and the systems that produce them.
Help evolve Cloudflare Speed Test and the measurement capabilities behind it.
Partner closely with Product Management to shape the roadmap and turn broad opportunities into clear engineering problems.
Help the team make the enormous volume of signals available across Cloudflare’s network more useful and consumable.
Explore how Cloudflare’s unique view of Internet activity can improve existing products, power new experiences and create entirely new businesses.
Own the operational health of the team’s systems, including observability, incident response, data quality and long-term reliability.
Develop technical leaders within the team and create space for engineers to lead architecture and implementation.
Work across Cloudflare to resolve dependencies and bring complex technical and product decisions to closure.
We want you to love it here. This role is a great fit for you if:
You have led and developed high-performing engineering team(s) and can point to what that team shipped and how the people on it grew.
You are technically credible with experienced engineers. You can review a design, understand the trade-offs in a distributed system or data platform, and recognize when a technical problem needs deeper investigation.
You are comfortable managing a team working across several related technical areas and can create clarity without requiring every problem to fit neatly into a single box.
You care deeply about reliability and quality, particularly when the output of a system is data that people use to understand the Internet.
You have strong product judgment and enjoy working with Product Management to decide what is worth building, what needs improvement and what should not be built at all.
You are comfortable with ambiguity and with finding structure in areas where the opportunity is clearer than the roadmap.
You communicate clearly, give direct feedback, and can explain complex technical decisions to both engineers and non-engineers.
Required Skills & Abilities
Experience leading engineering teams responsible for production software and services.
Strong technical grounding in distributed systems, data-intensive systems, Internet infrastructure or adjacent areas.
Experience operating systems where correctness, reliability and data quality matter as much as feature delivery.
Experience building or operating large-scale data pipelines, analytics platforms, telemetry systems or measurement infrastructure.
A track record of hiring, developing and retaining strong engineers.
Experience partnering closely with Product Management to shape and execute a roadmap.
Strong written and verbal communication.
Familiarity with Internet protocols and infrastructure such as HTTP, DNS, BGP, routing or network measurement.
Experience working with very large telemetry or Internet-scale datasets.
Experience building analytics or insights products that turn complex underlying data into something useful for a broad audience.
Experience working on products where the underlying data or infrastructure creates opportunities beyond the product’s original scope.
Familiarity with Cloudflare Radar, Internet measurement research, or the broader ecosystem of tools used to understand Internet performance, availability and security
